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When editing text on the canvas, I expect CTRL + D to delete forward. Figma does support some of these OS level behaviors when editing text in the canvas (e.g., CTRL + H, CTRL + K), just not uniformly. What I find most frustrating is that CTRL + D works when editing the names of Layer and Page names in the left panel.

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Would anyone else like to see more canonical keyboard shortcuts available when editing inside a text frame?

Wow, I didn’t know this shortcut existed! Much better than fn + backspace.

As a workaround, you can use BetterTouchTool to set custom shortcuts for any app and remap Ctrl + D in Figma to fn + backspace.

I guess a workaround rebinding the keys will have to do. Here are some workarounds:

Hammerspoon
If anyone else uses Hammerspoon, here is my solution:

forwardDelete = hs.hotkey.new({"ctrl"}, "d",  function()
      hs.eventtap.keyStroke({}, "forwarddelete")
  end)

hs.window.filter.new('Figma')
    :subscribe(hs.window.filter.windowFocused,function()
      forwardDelete:enable()
    end)
    :subscribe(hs.window.filter.windowUnfocused,function() 
      forwardDelete:disable()
    end)

Although my initial reaction was to do this with HS, it doesn’t seem to emit the new key code and might be a little fragile.

I may end up going with Karabiner-Elements version below.

Karabiner Elements
This is the complex modification I wrote for Karabiner-Elements to do the same thing.

{
  "title": "Figma key remaps",
  "rules": [{
    "description": "CTRL + D is delete_forward in Figma", 
    "manipulators": [{
      "conditions": [{
        "type": "frontmost_application_if", 
        "bundle_identifiers": ["^com\\.figma\\.Desktop$"]
      }],
      "from": {
        "key_code": "d",
        "modifiers": {"mandatory": ["left_control"]}
      },
      "to": [{"key_code": "delete_forward" }],
      "type": "basic"
    }]
  }]
}

Text nodes now support “delete forward” with Ctrl + D on Mac!

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